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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;John Anthony, post: 2358848, member: 42773&quot;]The CNG listings are instructive because, as you can see, the doctored coins are either low-grade rarities whose details have been &quot;improved&quot; by tooling and painting, or more common coins with sufficient detail, but painted to highlight the devices - hoping for more eye appeal and therefore value. Notice that in either case, the dirt looks carefully placed to do its work, and that it is applied with an even, smooth texture.</p><p><br /></p><p>A natural &quot;desert patina&quot; will look more like the OP coin - clumpy and randomly distributed. Now you might think this could also be an artifice, but when you&#039;ve looked through bags of hundred of these coins that look exactly the same (as I have), you begin to realize that this is just how they come out of certain locations.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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